Sunday Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - March 10, 1974, Oakland, California Tribune 1974 NO 68 CENTENNIAL YEAR SUNDAY MARCH 10 1974 SUNDAY A MONTH Kidnapers Send New Patty Tape The Liberation Army broke its long silence in the Patricia Hearst kidnaping case Saturday charging that efforts to meet its demands were insincere and ful It charged that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the police state were ting up Miss Hearst for tion The tape-recorded message sent to a San Francisco radio station contained a passage by Patty herself addressed to Mom and Dad indicating that she was alive and safe communications leading to the University of California student's release also were set forth by the SLA in the tape the first message since Feb 20 These included a demand that Russell Little and Joseph alleged members of the SLA being held on charges of murdering Oakland Super- intendent of Schools Marcus Foster be granted time on national television to tell their story and communicate with the SLA One of the voices on the tape a woman identified self as Jamina and said she was a general in the SLA She attacked the Hearst financed People in Need food tion program as ry for many reasons She said the quality of the food was only mediocre and that many people stood in line and re- nothing At another point in ence to offers of the Hearst Foundation to provide an ad- million for the PIN program once Miss Hearst is released the voice said er trust words of the enemy There was also an tion of bad because of the involvement of the al Bureau of Investigation and the tape declared that the police state wants Patricia Hearst killed so the middle class will rally around President Nixon's policies The pretty blonde daughter of Randolph A Hearst editor nf fho Sin scribed it as badly ed The woman from the SLA speaks on the tape for about 15 minutes and then Miss Hearst talks for about 10 utes Later a man who identifies himself as Cinque comes on the tape for about five utes Previous tapes from the SLA carried the voice of a man who called himself Cinque the general field marshal of the SLA Radio station said an anonymous woman tele- Francisco Examiner was dragged screaming from her Berkeley apartment by two men and a woman the evening of Feb 4 The SLA in early messages claims full for the kidnap In a 10 minute segment of this latest tape Fatty makes an appeal to her parents to cease cooperating with the FBI in the case I really want to get out of here I ask you not to aid the she says Her father appeared briefly outside the Hearst ough home Saturday evening moments after the first ing of the tape and ed We were glad to hear her voice and to know that Patty's alive but we'll have to study it before we make any reply We need time The tape about a half hour long was extremely difficult to understand Listeners de- Strike Talks Are Broken Off Negotiations broke down late Saturday night between San Francisco city officials and union leaders trying to end the three-day strike that has paralyzed public tation polluted the Bay with tons of raw sewage and left elderly patients lying in wet beds Talks ended after about eight hours when the city isted that before negotiations continue the unions reopen three sewage plants that are dumping tons of raw sewage into the Bay and the Pacific Ocean daily Labor Council Secretary John said the unions reject all preconditions to but are ready to negotiate further at any lime Dianne Feinstein president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors said the board would meet at 8 p.m today to discuss the issues But no more face-to-face possible by an extraordinary declaration by Mayor Joseph been scheduled Despite a Superior Court order at the request of the Bay Regional Water ty Control Board under which the city faces fines unless its three sewage treatment plants resume op- the plants remained shut down Saturday The strike was called by the Service Em- ployes International Union which has asked a a-year pay increase The city's counteroffer amounted to million which the un- ion rejected It also turned down compromise of- fer of million which some members of the Board of Supervisors had criticized as too generous Union ers said an 8 per cent raise would be closer to an ble figure The strike began Thursday at city hospitals and offices then spread Friday when the transit workers refused to cross picket lines The Municipal Railway's more than 1.000 buses cars and cable cars were idled forcing the Muni's 000 daily riders to switch to taxis private cars bicycles and hitchhiking Traffic congestion cased in the absence f the commuters but downtown Phil Buchanan that the tape was in a restroom of a town San Francisco rant The tape recording was in an envelope which also con- a California State Auto- mobile Association ship card apparently ing to Patricia Hearst The radio station turned these over to a representative of the Hearst family A spokesman for the station said there were specific instructions that the FBI not be called and that all contact should be directly with the Hearst family The tape began with a an's voice charging that the Hearst empire has been and listing a number of reasons not all of which could be made out over the loud humming ground The first reason listed ever was that Hearst did not print full transcripts of all SLA communiques especially the earlier ones and did not print the full explanation of cobra symbol The fascist state and the FBI have attempted to ulate public opinion ing Patricia Hearst's safety and eventual return while at the same time creating tions that it knows will force her the woman's voice said The tape next discussed alleged shortcomings of the food distribution system in- cluding the disorganization of the early attempts purported poor quality of foodstuffs in- adequate quantities and the fact that it did not provide the per family the SLA nally demanded Hearst's response to the later demand for an additional million worth of food was the woman said and apparently she was referring to the con- dition imposed by the Hearst Corp that the first million of that would be turned over only after Miss Hearst is re- leased At one point the woman said the SLA had considered putting Miss Hearst in the equivalent of a San Quentin strip cell apparently in re- taliation for the transfer of Little and to San Quentin but had decided his There was some reference to the Hearst EDITORIAL As editor I have issued a policy tive to The Tribune nullifying the SLA demand to The Tribune and other media to publish SLA communications in their exact form not omitting any area The SLA the other media the Hearst family and some of the reading public may ask why The following is my A Free Press is the keystone of all of your other basic freedoms granted by God and preserved and protected by our The extortion placing tyrannical demands on the Hearst family the public and the media alike seeks to enslave us public as well as the press The power of the press and the Freedom of the Press carry with them Responsibility One of the primary re- of the press is to PROTECT your remaining freedoms from any and all tyrants be they governmental agencies foreign powers or revolutionary tions To Miss Patty Hearst I If you are indeed alive and are held captive may God bless you and protect you To the Hearst family I May God give you the strength to survive this ordeal and our prayers hopes and thies are with you To my colleagues in the news media I NOW is the time to protect our country's freedoms not for if not there will be no free rows To the SLA I quote Thomas Jefferson who 174 years ago said it far more succinctly than I I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man Joseph W Editor and Publisher Gas Crunch Hikes BART Patronage DEMORO Tribune Staff Writer Arab Oil Chiefs Set Continued Back Page Col 7 Continued Back Page Col 1 On the Inside BART trains and parking lots in the are being swamped not only by com- but also by shoppers and other midday riders as the gasoline shortage sens Except for the extra riders diverted to BART last week during the city employe strike that idled the Municipal way patronage on the Daly Rider reaction and statistics page 16 Francisco branch has not increased ly This is because BART ates through an area of San Francisco that has good local bus streetcar and trackless trolley according to Alfred Wolf BART director of trans- I think competition in the is more with the private automobile than it is in the Wolf said patronage has jumped by 27 per cent since Jan 23 he said This is partly because BART serves many areas where there are no es Wolf explained Obviously a lot of these people we are getting as new riders are former automobile drivers because almost all of our parking lots are he said The energy crunch is ing people toward mass sit and we are Wolf asserted Tiie BART lot at Fremont is so crowded riders are parking their cars blocks from the station Wolf said The Orinda and Lafayette lots are packed and so are Lake Mcrritt ward South Hayward and Un- ion City he reported Daly City's lot has from the very beginning been filled but is the only BART lot in the Gregerman manager of BART maintenance says the number of cars available By The Associated Press Two Arab oil ministers ar- rived in Cairo Saturday night for a scheduled meeting today to consider ending the oil em- bargo against the United States Officials said the oil ters of Kuwait and Bahrain had arrived The oil ministry said five others are expected today The appearance of the first two ministers reinforced Egypt's insistence that the meeting would go on as uled this afternoon despite some apparent opposition within the Arab bloc A member of the Bahrain oil ministers party said he expected the meeting will be- gin on schedule today but he would not say what he expects the outcome will be The semiofficial Egyptian newspaper Al ed that the ministers ing in the Egyptian capital will lift the four-month old embargo that has contributed to the oil pinch across the United States Syria and Algeria two pre- vious holdouts sent word day night that they would show up said Egyptian Oil Ministry spokesman moud Roushdy There has been no word from Libya which opposes Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's efforts to talk his brother Arabs into lifting the embargo in return for U.S mediation in the Middle East he added But Roushdy listed these countries the major Arab oil exporters to the United States as having confirmed they will Saudi Arabia the largest Arab oil producer and leader of the embargo Kuwait the Arao on ducer Qatar Bahrain Abu Dhabi Algeria Egypt and Syria The prediction appeared to end earlier speculation that only a few ministers would show up to consider the deci- sion on ending the embargo before Israel withdraws from all occupied Arab land and even before Syrian and Israeli forces along the lan Heights A Syrian military man announced in Damascus meanwhile that more artillery fire erupted on the tense lan front where Israelis and Syrians fought with artillery and rockets in two ments Friday Syrian cannons destroyed an Israeli bulldozer and an- other vehicle in Saturday's minute barrage that began when Israeli units tried to improve their positions the communique added No were reported The Al embargo pre- diction came in a dispatch from the capital of Saudi bia The correspondent said a decision to lift the embargo would come in accordance with a decision reached last month in Algiers at a meeting of King Faisal of Saudi bia President Hafez Assad of Syria and President Houari of Algeria Faisal generally recognized Windbag Slated See Page 15 II Ain't Eagle Crow Watergate Seven Plead Not Guilty WASHINGTON AP Haldeman John D lichman and John N Mitchell once President Nixon's chief aides and confidants stood before a federal judge day and pleaded innocent to charges they conspired to er up the Watergate affair They entered their innocent pleas in a closely guarded courtroom along with Charles W Colson Robert C an Kenneth W Parkinson and Gordon Strachan all former White House or Nixon re-election committee em- ployes Ehrlichman and Colson also pleaded innocent to charges leveled by another grand they violated the rights of a California Crucial Quiz For Airport Tomorrow oy v mutt Tribune Capital Bureau a ish situation a slapping rigid flight restrictions on Oakland International Airport will un- dergo its first and probably only public hearing tomorrow The which would close the airport's north runways to jet and aircraft for noise and safety reasons has technically already been approved by both houses of the legislature At p.m tomorrow the Senate Transportation Com- will conduct the first session at which the bill's merits and demerits will have been publicly debated Normally of course the ob- and consequences of any new legislation are reviewed in a number of hearings before a measure ever makes its way to the floor of the Assembly or Senate for a final vote But the Oakland airport managed to back its way through the legislature from the top down as it were When first introduced last year by State Sen John A Nejedly Creek it dealt with another subject en- technical air tion matter It eventually passed the trist by sending burglars into his office The proceeding before Chief U.S District Judge John J Sirica lasted only six minutes As I call your name please state to the court how you plead to the said the clerk James Capitanio as the seven men and their yers stood before the bench Mitchell charged with six counts in the ment was first in the Not guilty to all said the former attorney eral here from New York where he is on trial with former Secretary of Com- merce Maurice H Stans Then Haldeman Not guilty on all counts Next Ehrlichman Not guilty on all counts Then Colson Mardian kinson and Strachan Not guilty Even in their arraignment the men were given VIP tus None had to fill out the customary probation forms or undergo usual procedure None had to post bond to remain free trial is lor Sept 9 six months to the day Sirica will preside If there was strain in the reunion of one-time the same courtroom where the Watergate burglars stood trial 14 months didn't show Mitchell shook hands with special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski under whose leadership the charges were brought John how are you Good to see you Jaworski said Are you in good Mitchell asked Fairly said the cutor and moved off As the others arrived they shook hands all around stood in clusters talking The seven were represented by 10 lawyers Police and marshals were everywhere Identifications were checked to gain entrance to the courthouse Everyone had to sign in but lawyers performed the chore for the defendants A metal detector scanned everyone for weapons before entry into the courtroom Outside the courthouse on a gloomy damp day a crowd of 100 spectators jeered as the most easily recognized de- fendants pushed through Sieg some shouted at Haldeman and Ehrlichman How does it Continued Back Page Cel 1 Back Page 5 Back Page Cil Continued Back Page Cel 4 Why do they Page 2 How Corporate Spies Ruin Lives Page 25 What are schools to do Page 16 Home improvement ideas California Magazine Classified Shopping Crossword futile Editorial 26 He sculptures humon faces Page 18 Ed Raider rookie no Rockne Page 39 Beware of phony silver com- panies Page 45 Artists brush with lib World of Women londen Real World of Women Has Reached Texas Seepage 22 Chance of rein forecast see page 28 By LOUISE COOK Preti Writer Mrs Lyndon B Johnson laughed Walter Cronkite blushed And the streaker was dragged out the door It all happened Saturday at the LBJ Library Auditorium in Austin Tex as the fad for dashing about nude continued with no end in sight It beats football said one young woman who shed her clothes and strolled down a street near San Jose State College Streakers even struck at a Los sion studio A Password TV taping was by a man holding a small piece of cardboard in a strategic spot If the ABC censors agree the show wilt be televised unedited the producer said And a newscast at the Uni- versity of California at Santa Barbara radio station halted abruptly when two male streakers ran through the dio from an outside door and left through the studio lobby None of the streakers was apprehended The incident at the library came as CBS newsman and former student at the University of was accepting the School of DeWitt C Reddick Award for ing achievement The nude man wearing only tennis shoes an orange baseball cap and a made cloth mask entered through a side door about 12 feet from the speaker's form but didn't get wry far Two security men pounced on him him sway A witness said the widow of the late president laughed at the incident Cronkite re- his speech chuckled then My composure was de- And me without a CBS camera The streaker was fied We've got a white male down said a man at police headquarters We'd like to know who he is ourselves He doesn't have to tell us anything but he isn't leaving here until he does The fad picked up steam in Britain where three male only in through a crowd gathered at the famed Hyde Park Speakers Corner in don for a women's liberation demonstration The San Jose streaking dents began Friday night and lasted until early Saturday Police concentrated on trying to keep traffic moving Other groups of California to Tt Fifty ty streakers who dashed along the Golden Gate Bridge at rush hour Friday said they were members of the Bay Area Runners Extraordinaire and the Associated Stanford Streakers Bridge streaking seemed popular in West ginia Nine young nude men dashed across the toll bridge from East Liverpool Ohio to Newell early day Pedestrians pay no toll on the bridge but toll collector Pitton 73 extracted a fee of sorts from one youth He reported he smacked the runner on the bottom with a broom as he sped past Two West Milford streakers were charged with disorderly conduct after they disrobed inside police quarters Another incident of airborne streaking was reported early Saturday Pan American World Airways said a man described only as a short uiS 30s streaked through a Pan Am jumbo jet during a flight from London to New York He dashed out of the toilet and ran stark naked through Back Page Cel 4 16 Blue Streakers Appear in Fairbanks i FAIRBANKS Alaska AP Streaking IMS turned up on campus some people thought might be immune the University of Alaska A band of It naked students were seen fitting through a dormitory complex The streak was brief ob- servers reported The ature on campus was 8 below zero
